As a wedding photographer, I have always had a fascination for love stories. For this project, I came up with the idea of doing something different from what I normally do, which is to document the stories of couples who decide to get married.
So we looked for an elderly couple and decided to document their love story after many years of marriage.
Hans and Marianne are a German couple who, a few years ago, decided to give up their jobs and move to France. They bought a truck, learned to make crepes and started to go from event to event selling their delicious crepes.
They live a simple, quiet life, and when there are no events on, they live in their home, where they enjoy their day to day activities, along with glasses of wine and good food.
When they have an event, their lives are completely transformed and they may have to work for up to 12 – 14 hours, making more than 1,000 crepes a day. Nonetheless, they always have a smile for their customers and a few minutes to talk to them.
As Hans told us, since they bought the truck, he and Marianne have spent 24 hours, 365 days a year together, which is proof that true love does exist.
To take these photos, we spent a whole day with Hans and Marianne in Nantes, where they have just finished an event and are getting ready for another one that will take place in three days’ time.
Our idea was for this report to be the first of a series of five, in which we portray the love stories of elderly couples across the world.
